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the "boston globe" said they had fireworks ready to go. why did they think they were going to win? they had a fundamentally different view of the elect tort. when the public polls came out they looked at these polls and said these polls have too many democrats. there's no way this president will be able to build up the enthusiasm that way. there are a lot of polls that were pretty close. and this person said that -- they said it was inconceivable. we thought there's no way he's going match his 2008 turnout with minorities and young voters an we really didn't think he would increase it. so what happened overall is, the president did worse with white voters but white voters were the same share of the elect tort. but he did far better with african-americans, latinos an young voters because the romney campaign had sort of was looking -- they changed their data. they done their internal polling based on a smaller number of democrats turning out. they thought things were going well. they had a lot of enthusiasm at their rallies. this is what led them to believe that they could take it. >
the "boston globe" said they had fireworks ready to go. why did they think they were going to win? they had a fundamentally different view of the elect tort. when the public polls came out they looked at these polls and said these polls have too many democrats. there's no way this president will be able to build up the enthusiasm that way. there are a lot of polls that were pretty close. and this person said that -- they said it was inconceivable. we thought there's no way he's going...
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and i feel like in boston, it was either naive or it was wishful thinking that hey, we weathered the bain attacks. they're done. gwen: they had weathered it in the primary season. they keep weathering it all over. >> exactly. and what we saw, especially today, is their eyes are wide open. and they're realizing fully and finally this is not going away. we got to deal with it. gwen: alexis, the republican nominee asked the president to apologize for all the bad things he said. likely to happen? >> unlikely to occur, yes. and in fact, president obama has been in some ways unusual in this early stage of -- as michael is saying to make this so much his own campaign against mitt romney, to weigh in himself. and some of the members of his own party have suggested that surrogates would be better to take mitt romney on directly. because he is president of the united states. and in some ways, mitt romney was baiting him over that very same question. and then we saw this week the campaign has divided up the communications so that the white house has a traveling communications and the campaign n
and i feel like in boston, it was either naive or it was wishful thinking that hey, we weathered the bain attacks. they're done. gwen: they had weathered it in the primary season. they keep weathering it all over. >> exactly. and what we saw, especially today, is their eyes are wide open. and they're realizing fully and finally this is not going away. we got to deal with it. gwen: alexis, the republican nominee asked the president to apologize for all the bad things he said. likely to...
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. >> so when we had the cornhusker kickback on health care, this can -- is what, the boston bonus? >> brown's office is very sensitive about that concern and they point out that well, this does benefit fidelity but also a whole group of banks in that class and therefore it's not a carveout for anybody in particular and they say what scott brown was really concerned about was making sure the types of things that caused this crisis in the first place got more regulation, not fidelity, which was largely abbent -- absent from the crisis. gwen: -- gwen: it's a 2,300 page bill. >> chamber of commerce said there are 530 new laws that have to be written, or rewritten because of this. the fight noum shifts from capitol hill to the regulatory agencies and that's better ground for them because they can go in where there aren't tv cameras, the mill heat and light, and make their cases behind closed doors. the wall street lobbyists are convinced they can make some changes here. gwen: and the wall street lobbyists will remain employed, as they always do. and every day seems to bring a new poll t
. >> so when we had the cornhusker kickback on health care, this can -- is what, the boston bonus? >> brown's office is very sensitive about that concern and they point out that well, this does benefit fidelity but also a whole group of banks in that class and therefore it's not a carveout for anybody in particular and they say what scott brown was really concerned about was making sure the types of things that caused this crisis in the first place got more regulation, not fidelity,...
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and in that case he was in boston, he raised about $5 million. well he doubled it this year. in vegas in one day they got commitments and pledges for $10 million. this is probably more than most of these other republican candidates are going to raise in the quarter. and so it sent a very strong signal, not just to his opponents about his strength, but any sunsetters, this is a shot across the bow to mitch daniels, it's basically, bring it on. so that was a really important event for the romney campaign and then tying together with the gingrich problems, one of the first things we started to hear was that he had an event that was scheduled down south that started to collapse. because there were people who were signed up to sponsor a fundraiser for him but in light of what he'd said about the republican plan, some of them were going to walk with away. his campaign says he made the call, he brought them all back. gwen: they still had big crowds in iowa. >> big crowds aren't money. big crowds are a good thing and there are a lot of people in those crowds who want to confront him
and in that case he was in boston, he raised about $5 million. well he doubled it this year. in vegas in one day they got commitments and pledges for $10 million. this is probably more than most of these other republican candidates are going to raise in the quarter. and so it sent a very strong signal, not just to his opponents about his strength, but any sunsetters, this is a shot across the bow to mitch daniels, it's basically, bring it on. so that was a really important event for the romney...
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and a net negative for the boston-based headquarters of mitt romney. mitt romney's only path to the white house is pachede through the economy -- paved through the economy and a discussion thereof. any other discussion is harmful. look at mitt romney's -- gwen: how bad it is. >> look at the reaction to this. i don't want to talk about gay marriage. what do i want to talk about? the economy. i played hockey as a kid and i grew up in san diego. a kick save and a beauty. it was either a sick calf and a beauty for -- a kick save and a yutey for the white house or something the president was talking about and most public venue in washington, "meet the press." look at that entire transcript. previous to his comments on gay marriage. every single thing is on message. what you have to believe, if you believe that joe biden wandered off the reservation, is entirely consistent with the re-election message and then suddenly he goes bonkers and says something about gay marriage the white house can't live with. i fundamentally don't believe it. this was consistentl
and a net negative for the boston-based headquarters of mitt romney. mitt romney's only path to the white house is pachede through the economy -- paved through the economy and a discussion thereof. any other discussion is harmful. look at mitt romney's -- gwen: how bad it is. >> look at the reaction to this. i don't want to talk about gay marriage. what do i want to talk about? the economy. i played hockey as a kid and i grew up in san diego. a kick save and a beauty. it was either a sick...
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i spent some time up in boston earlier this week talking so some of the romney folks. and their view is whoever is in is in and whoever is not in is not. we've got a campaign of the type we want to run and we're going to run that campaign. gwen: michelle bachman is telling her her heart is telling her to get in. there was also some substance that snuck in this week in the form of a special election that turned a red district blue, apparently because of unhappiness about a republican plan to revamp medicare. that plan's author congressman paul ryan says the opposition is just an excuse to do nothing about a growing problem. >> the irony of this is our plan actually preserves the benefit for current seniors, but trying to scare seniors and turning these things into political weapons, what that ends up doing is inflicting political paralysis. that means nothing gets done. gwen: but it does provide a political framework at least for this political conversation we're having. >> certainly it does. the big question is is that a framework that will last for two weeks or 18 mon
i spent some time up in boston earlier this week talking so some of the romney folks. and their view is whoever is in is in and whoever is not in is not. we've got a campaign of the type we want to run and we're going to run that campaign. gwen: michelle bachman is telling her her heart is telling her to get in. there was also some substance that snuck in this week in the form of a special election that turned a red district blue, apparently because of unhappiness about a republican plan to...
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>> yes, he got the boston endorsement. he has the appeal, endorsement but at this point in the game, it's just not enough. gwen: it's unclear "the boston globe" endorsement gets republicans elected. >> but perhaps independents. gwen: perhaps independents, which is what he's clearly going for here. newt gingrich, another puzzle. flying high in national polls, even iowa. collapsed pretty spectacularly last week and seems to be continuing his collapse. >> he got hammered in iowa with millions of dollars in negative ads and didn't respond. took it as a badge of honor he wasn't going to respond and realized not responding was a mistake. i think he ended the campaign in iowa as a very angry person as we saw on caucus night when he gave that speech and did not say anything gracious about governor romney and has come here, in a sense he's got one card here and that is the support of the union leader, which is strong, conservative newspaper here in manchester. and once they endorse a candidate, they stay with that candidate. they'v
>> yes, he got the boston endorsement. he has the appeal, endorsement but at this point in the game, it's just not enough. gwen: it's unclear "the boston globe" endorsement gets republicans elected. >> but perhaps independents. gwen: perhaps independents, which is what he's clearly going for here. newt gingrich, another puzzle. flying high in national polls, even iowa. collapsed pretty spectacularly last week and seems to be continuing his collapse. >> he got...
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. >> woodruff: and in boston today, u.s. interior secretary ken salazar promised the federal government will spare no effort to prevent an environmental disaster. >> what's going on in the gulf of mexico today is something which we are watching and monitoring on... not on an hourly basis but every single minute and everything is being done to deal with that situation. >> woodruff: for now, the financial costs are already mounting. b.p. says containment operations are costing $6 million a day. and the ultimate cost to fisheries, tourism and the environment could be staggering. for more now on the spill and the difficulties in stopping it, we talk to two people who are tracking this. doug helton, the incident operations coordinator for noaa, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. and nancy kinner, an environmental engineer and co-director of the coastal response research center at the university of new hampshire. thank you both for being with us. doug helton with n.o.a.a., i'm going to start with you. i think mic
. >> woodruff: and in boston today, u.s. interior secretary ken salazar promised the federal government will spare no effort to prevent an environmental disaster. >> what's going on in the gulf of mexico today is something which we are watching and monitoring on... not on an hourly basis but every single minute and everything is being done to deal with that situation. >> woodruff: for now, the financial costs are already mounting. b.p. says containment operations are costing...
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, to the dropouts themselves so we did so all across the country in big cities like los angeles and boston but also in small towns like st. clairsville, ohio. what we discovered was that these young people have extraordinary dreams. they wanted to be doctors and nurses and journalists. one girl from philadelphia in our focus group said she wanted to be an astrophysicist. >> warner: she was a dropout. >> at the age of 16 she was literally on the streets. what we realized that aate low of these young people, yes, they had academic challenges, yes, they had extraordinary family circumstances that caused them to have hardship. but a lot of them didn't see the relevance between what they were learning in the classroom to what they wanted to be in life, to their dreams. >> warner: in our set-up piece we described generalerically what some of the states to improve their graduation rates did or improve their dropout numbers. but give us a specific example. pick a state that really turned their numbers around. what did they do? >> let's take the leader, the state of tennessee. the governor and stat
, to the dropouts themselves so we did so all across the country in big cities like los angeles and boston but also in small towns like st. clairsville, ohio. what we discovered was that these young people have extraordinary dreams. they wanted to be doctors and nurses and journalists. one girl from philadelphia in our focus group said she wanted to be an astrophysicist. >> warner: she was a dropout. >> at the age of 16 she was literally on the streets. what we realized that aate...
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. >> reporter: the schaeffer residence in newton massachusetts outside boston. fraternal twins becky and naomi both went away to college in canada, graduated last year, both worked part time. both are so-called boomerang kids, back home with their parents. >> can you tell us a little bit about what your high school friends are doing now? are many of them back in newton as well? >> most of them are. i would say that only one of our high school friends, one or two of them have really gotten good full-time jobs. >> reporter: the fifth person in the schaeffers' kitchen? sociologist and johns hopkins dean catherine newman demonstrating her field work skill. >> i didn't want to move somewhere random. >> i kind of wish i did it. not that i don't have living at home. >> why do you say that? >> i just feel like when i first moved home, i was like okay, becky, six months and you won't be here anymore. i feel like i'm getting a little bit complacent. >> reporter: the schaeffers could have sprung sfrat from newman's new book the accordian family which chronicles a worldwide
. >> reporter: the schaeffer residence in newton massachusetts outside boston. fraternal twins becky and naomi both went away to college in canada, graduated last year, both worked part time. both are so-called boomerang kids, back home with their parents. >> can you tell us a little bit about what your high school friends are doing now? are many of them back in newton as well? >> most of them are. i would say that only one of our high school friends, one or two of them have...
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. >> holman: basketball legend bill russell, who helped win 11 championships with the boston celtics, and was the first african american to coach in the nba. >> when a restaurant refused to serve the black celtics, he refused to play in the scheduled game. he endured insults and vandalism, but he kept on focusing on making the teammates who he loved better players, and made possible the success of so many who would follow. and i hope that one day, in the streets of boston, children will look up at a statue built not only to bill russell, the player, but bill russell, the man. >> holman: libby little accepted the award on behalf of her husband, dr. tom little, an opthamologist murdered in afghanistan last year. the last to be honored, former president george h.w. bush... >> not simply for the years he spent as our 41st president. we honor george herbert walker bush for service to america that spanned nearly 70 years-- from a decorated navy pilot who nearly gave his life in world war ii, to u.s. ambassador to the united nations, from cia director to u.s. envoy to china, to the vice pres
. >> holman: basketball legend bill russell, who helped win 11 championships with the boston celtics, and was the first african american to coach in the nba. >> when a restaurant refused to serve the black celtics, he refused to play in the scheduled game. he endured insults and vandalism, but he kept on focusing on making the teammates who he loved better players, and made possible the success of so many who would follow. and i hope that one day, in the streets of boston, children...
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colonel andrew bacevich fought in the vietnam war and is now a professor of international relations at boston university. his latest book is "the limits of power: the end of american exceptionalism." i talked with them a short time ago. gent manymen, welcome. first, general keane, do you believe general mcchrystal was out of order when he spoke up publicly as he did in london? >> not for a minute. i think this thing is sort of blown out of proportion a little bit. my take on that is that, you know, general mcchrystal back in march was told to execute a counterinsurgency strategy. he's done an assessment as to how best to do that. he certainly identified some resources that he's going to need. so he's putting all of that in play, and i think his speech reinforces that counterinsurgency strategy. i don't think for a minute that mcchrystal is trying to lobby those who are part of the decision-making process in washington or can influence that decision-making process. he's just not that kind of a person. frankly, i think he probably feels terrible that people construed that. it will probably be a
colonel andrew bacevich fought in the vietnam war and is now a professor of international relations at boston university. his latest book is "the limits of power: the end of american exceptionalism." i talked with them a short time ago. gent manymen, welcome. first, general keane, do you believe general mcchrystal was out of order when he spoke up publicly as he did in london? >> not for a minute. i think this thing is sort of blown out of proportion a little bit. my take on...
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at least 30 people, including doctors, were arrested today in new york, boston, louisiana and houston. the alleged scams included charging medicare for thousands of dollars of food and medical devices that patients never received. a government advisory committee called today for pregnant women to be first in line for swine flu vaccines this fall. the group made recommendations to the centers for disease control. the british medical journal "the lancet" reported pregnant women run a much higher risk of severe illness and death from the swine flu virus also known as h1n1. >> ifill: and still to come on the newshour tonight: bernanke on the record and elvis costello, restless rocker. but first, we turn to the international controversy over allegations of deaths and torture in iran's prisons. today, secretary of state clinton said she deplored the reports of abuse, and she urged the release of political prisoners. margaret warner has more on that story.nb >> warner: iran's rulers cracked down hard last month when hundreds of thousands of demonstrators challenged what they said was a rigge
at least 30 people, including doctors, were arrested today in new york, boston, louisiana and houston. the alleged scams included charging medicare for thousands of dollars of food and medical devices that patients never received. a government advisory committee called today for pregnant women to be first in line for swine flu vaccines this fall. the group made recommendations to the centers for disease control. the british medical journal "the lancet" reported pregnant women run a...
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i'll rest my case. >> for now from boston i'm jim lehrer. thank you and good night. >> from carl cables florida, i'm jim lehrer, good night. from oxford mississippi thank you, senators both. i'm jim lehrer. thank you and good tonight. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day. taliban insurgents targeted the u.s. embassy and nato headquarters in coordinated assaults in kabul, afghanistan. a court in iran set bail of $500,000 apiece for two american hikers convicted of spying. they would be released within days. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: jim reads passages from "tension city" on the rundown blog. plus, explore today's poverty numbers and newly released figures on the numbers of uninsured. and tonight's "frontline" features an extended conversation with ali soufan, an f.b.i. interrogator, who says c.i.a. enhanced interrogation techniques are ineffective, and that the agency's failure to share information with him altered his investigation of 9/11. "frontline's" martin smith con
i'll rest my case. >> for now from boston i'm jim lehrer. thank you and good night. >> from carl cables florida, i'm jim lehrer, good night. from oxford mississippi thank you, senators both. i'm jim lehrer. thank you and good tonight. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day. taliban insurgents targeted the u.s. embassy and nato headquarters in coordinated assaults in kabul, afghanistan. a court in iran set bail of $500,000 apiece for two american hikers convicted...
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. >> woodruff: mitt romney was doing his debate homework in boston but advisor told cnn on sunday that he expects a different president obama on tuesday up to a point >> well, the president can change his style. he can change his tactics. he can't change his record and he can't change his policies. that's what this election is about >> woodruff: the candidates face off tomorrow night at hofstra university in hempstead, new york. >> suarez: late today, mitt romney announced he raised more than $170 million in september, and said that his campaign and republican national committee had $191 million in the bank at the end of the month. those efforts are boosted by spending from outside groups. according to newshour partner kantar media/cmag, groups opposing the president and supporting romney in the general election alone have run record numbers of television commercials. that's more than 41,000 spots from american crossroads; more than 43,000 spots from americans for prosperity; and 45,000 spots from the restore our future super pac. backing president obama, the super pac priorities usa a
. >> woodruff: mitt romney was doing his debate homework in boston but advisor told cnn on sunday that he expects a different president obama on tuesday up to a point >> well, the president can change his style. he can change his tactics. he can't change his record and he can't change his policies. that's what this election is about >> woodruff: the candidates face off tomorrow night at hofstra university in hempstead, new york. >> suarez: late today, mitt romney...
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or boston community capital, the crucial third step of the program. it's tackling a problem millions of underwater homeowners face. they could afford a market-priced mortgage but their banks foreclosed instead so they'll have to sell at market price anyway. alice cherry. >> if we can find an owner who has the ability to pay a mortgage at roughly market rate for that home, then we go out to the owner of the property, or the service, whoever it is who has charge of the mortgage and we attempt to negotiate a purchase from that entity. once we've bought, then we can turn around and sell back to the homeowner. >> reporter: the bulk of b.c.c.'s funding comes from investors and foundations along with some government money. first, b.c.c. buys a property at roughly market value, typically half or less of what the foreclosed homeowner owes. second, b.c.c. sells it back to the homeowner with a 30-year mortgage at about 6% at the moment, marking up the purchase price by 25% as a cushion against default. to further ensure that its investors get their money back, b
or boston community capital, the crucial third step of the program. it's tackling a problem millions of underwater homeowners face. they could afford a market-priced mortgage but their banks foreclosed instead so they'll have to sell at market price anyway. alice cherry. >> if we can find an owner who has the ability to pay a mortgage at roughly market rate for that home, then we go out to the owner of the property, or the service, whoever it is who has charge of the mortgage and we...
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the same way that jon huntsman's endorsement by the "boston globe", the "boston globe" endorsement of a republican in a conservative primary is not necessarily helpful. i mean it doesn't resolve jon huntsman's problem, just a little bit like the washington times conservative newspaper picking the union leader here picking a democrat in a primary, if anything it probably consciously leads to ignoring it. but i think that he doesn't have the kind of populous message that mike huckabee had or pat buchanan had before him or economic message the same way. but he does, he has established a connection and it's a vulnerability that romney has. romney does not have that emotional-- . >> woodruff: what about huntsman and the opening or not for him. >> i'm not sure there is that opening. he's been there a long time, still only polling 7 or 8. i think if you are a main street republican, you go to mitt romney at this point. now maybe he has that opening. i don't think he really ever figured out how to run the race. was he going to run as the moderate who would stand for clear moderation or some k
the same way that jon huntsman's endorsement by the "boston globe", the "boston globe" endorsement of a republican in a conservative primary is not necessarily helpful. i mean it doesn't resolve jon huntsman's problem, just a little bit like the washington times conservative newspaper picking the union leader here picking a democrat in a primary, if anything it probably consciously leads to ignoring it. but i think that he doesn't have the kind of populous message that mike...
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and for now from boston, i'm jim lehrer thank you and good night. from coral gables, florida, i'm jim leery, thank you and good night. from oxford, mississippi, thank you, senators, both, i'm jim lehrer, thank you and good night. ( applause ) >> good job. >> good job, john. >> woodruff: that interview with jim and kate leerir was record last fall. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day: president obama and mitt romney prepped for their face-to-faceÑi meeting tonight in denver, where they will square off in the first debate. and the syrian civil war threatened to boil over, after mortar fire from syria killed five people in a village in turkey. the turks fired back at targets in syria. and in a new project launching today, the "newshour" is allowing you to make your own political ads. kwame holman explains. >> holman: gwen, the adlibs mozilla game let's the viewer be the candidate. you can mash up your facebook photos to make personalized political ads. find that on our home page. today in making sense, with millions of americans still o
and for now from boston, i'm jim lehrer thank you and good night. from coral gables, florida, i'm jim leery, thank you and good night. from oxford, mississippi, thank you, senators, both, i'm jim lehrer, thank you and good night. ( applause ) >> good job. >> good job, john. >> woodruff: that interview with jim and kate leerir was record last fall. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day: president obama and mitt romney prepped for their face-to-faceÑi meeting...
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it is correct that mitt romney hired a lawn company that had illegal aliens working on it and the "boston globe" exposed it. whether romney knowingly hired illegal aliens, i don't think you can make that case. i mean, he found out about it, he complained to the company and as the story goes a year later the "boston globe" discovered yet again that they had illegal aliens and so then he fired the company. >> ifill: so technically a company he had hired did employ illegal aliens but he personally did not know of it, that's his defense? >> right. that's as much as we know about the story. >> reporter: so the other attack which is romney pushing back at perry-- and i want to get this right-- he said that texas had a 60% increase in illegal immigrants while perry was governor, or at least in the last ten years, and that 40% of the new jobs that had been created in texas that perry likes to boast about were created for illegal immigrants. what's true about that? >> there are two statistics from two different sources. the first one comes from the department of homeland security and that does sho
it is correct that mitt romney hired a lawn company that had illegal aliens working on it and the "boston globe" exposed it. whether romney knowingly hired illegal aliens, i don't think you can make that case. i mean, he found out about it, he complained to the company and as the story goes a year later the "boston globe" discovered yet again that they had illegal aliens and so then he fired the company. >> ifill: so technically a company he had hired did employ...
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he's one of the country's leading experts on trauma and teaches at the boston university school of medicine. >> it doesn't make sense from a neuroscience point of view because having all of our research shows is that trauma affects cognition. and the piece that says you need to think clearly and to be optimistic gets severely impacted by being traumatized. so traumatized people cannot think straight because their brains are sort of locked in horror and terror. >> reporter: and van der kolk says there are times when happy thoughts don't help people recover from trauma. >> there's times to not feel cheerful. there's times to feel a deep sense of guilt, of regret, of sorrow, of terror because we have all these emotions, because we need all of them. and we should not prefer one over the other. and the treatment of traumatic stress consists of people tolerating every single emotion including the bad ones. >> reporter: master sergeant jennifer laredo knows a thing or two about keeping her thinking in line. two years ago, while on a mission in iraq her husband eddie stepped on a bomb and was kille
he's one of the country's leading experts on trauma and teaches at the boston university school of medicine. >> it doesn't make sense from a neuroscience point of view because having all of our research shows is that trauma affects cognition. and the piece that says you need to think clearly and to be optimistic gets severely impacted by being traumatized. so traumatized people cannot think straight because their brains are sort of locked in horror and terror. >> reporter: and van...
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." >> warner: for our american graduate series, betty ann bowser reports on a boston school, where early intervention for students with learning disabilities is producing lower drop-out rates. >> if we want kids to graduate from high school, that having a and for kids with significant learning disabilities, providing accommodations for reading a writing are critical. >> brown: ray suarez examines new studies showing a daily dose of aspirin may prevent and even treat cancer. >> warner: and gwen ifill talks with two senate veterans-- new mexico's jeff bingaman and maine's olympia snowe about their decisions to quit. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastin
." >> warner: for our american graduate series, betty ann bowser reports on a boston school, where early intervention for students with learning disabilities is producing lower drop-out rates. >> if we want kids to graduate from high school, that having a and for kids with significant learning disabilities, providing accommodations for reading a writing are critical. >> brown: ray suarez examines new studies showing a daily dose of aspirin may prevent and even treat...
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., new york, boston, l.a., is this following a pattern and setting a pattern for coming negotiations in other big city school systems? >> well, it certainly might and particularly around the issue of teacher evaluation which has come on to the national landscape with incentives and encouragement from the u.s. department of education. i think the compromise, as you called it, did secure some pieces that will improve the capacity of teachers to improve we valuation as well as as well as for the city to do the evaluations in productive ways. but there are some real land mines in the teacher evaluation landscape that are certainly being contended all over the country. >> suarez: on the picket lines, professor, you heard a lot of teachers talking about not these technical disputes but about respect. the chicago teachers union had delivered a generation of labor peace, there hasn' hadn't been a strike in 25 years, they worked with school closings, reassignments and were still being blamed for everything that was going wrong with education in chicago. was there more at play here than just t
., new york, boston, l.a., is this following a pattern and setting a pattern for coming negotiations in other big city school systems? >> well, it certainly might and particularly around the issue of teacher evaluation which has come on to the national landscape with incentives and encouragement from the u.s. department of education. i think the compromise, as you called it, did secure some pieces that will improve the capacity of teachers to improve we valuation as well as as well as for...
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i think that the change really starts back in new bedford and pittsfield and in boston it starts all over the commonwealth of massachusetts and towns all over this country. and it's about people getting more involved, about putting the wind in our own sales in part what you're asking about it's not just what's happening in washington, it's that people have to be involved we have to make our voices heard. >> ifill: you're hear in this convention to speak on behalf of barack obama. what do you say to americans who voted for him four years ago who are just not that enthusiast thick time? >> well, i tell them i believe the direction this country's going to go for the next half century will be decided in this election. we've really come to it and this is going to be a race about our value, about what kind of a people we are and what what kind of a country we're trying to build if you believe that the way to build this country and the kind of country it is that it's from the top down, more tax cuts, more deregulations for so they have more power and somehow that will trickle down for every
i think that the change really starts back in new bedford and pittsfield and in boston it starts all over the commonwealth of massachusetts and towns all over this country. and it's about people getting more involved, about putting the wind in our own sales in part what you're asking about it's not just what's happening in washington, it's that people have to be involved we have to make our voices heard. >> ifill: you're hear in this convention to speak on behalf of barack obama. what do...
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michael can fish at the "boston globe," thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> now to gwen ifill following the came in south carolina. gwen, you are in rock hill and we just learned there's a new "time"/cnn poll showingomney's lead shrinking in south carolina. you've just come from a romney event. how is he reacting to all this new focus on his taxes? >> that's right, judy, his lean has gone from 20 points to 10 points. still a significant lead but obviously he feels newt gingrich breathing down his back. newt gingrich has been saying, you know, listen, my plan is to have a 15% tax rate for everyone and so therefore we just want to do what mitt romney did. but mitt romney should release his taxes it's that tax return issue which seems to have residents from the people we're talking to on the ground here we can also see both candidates are feeling the heat. newt gingrich is attacking romney calling him stupid and silly, or at least calling his attacks that. and romney has unleashed a bunch of surrogates and press releases attacking newt gingrich. so what we see here is a tig
michael can fish at the "boston globe," thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> now to gwen ifill following the came in south carolina. gwen, you are in rock hill and we just learned there's a new "time"/cnn poll showingomney's lead shrinking in south carolina. you've just come from a romney event. how is he reacting to all this new focus on his taxes? >> that's right, judy, his lean has gone from 20 points to 10 points. still a significant lead...
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. >> reporter: bill buzzby is from my neck of the northeast, boston. >> i want to buy a home for myself. i think cape coral has a lot of good deals. that's why i'm on the tour today. >> reporter: might you make an offer on one of the three we've seen so far. >> quite possible. i'm ready to go. >> reporter: ready to go means something quite different to juan mesa, however. back on the flip side of the foreclosure story, the down side of mark joseph's job. >> juan, the first concern i have on the wall right here if i don't take this off the wall it's going to get thrown away. if it's something you need i need you to take it now. >> reporter: this woman was here to translate. mesa bought the home in 2002. mortgage for $80,000, it's worth no more than $20,000 today. mesa can no longer afford the payments so he's giving up the house. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: for a $1500 relocation fee. >> important that he finishes the rest of the backyard. this is the part of the job that is tough. it's very tough. the end result is the man just lost his house after seven or eight years of payin
. >> reporter: bill buzzby is from my neck of the northeast, boston. >> i want to buy a home for myself. i think cape coral has a lot of good deals. that's why i'm on the tour today. >> reporter: might you make an offer on one of the three we've seen so far. >> quite possible. i'm ready to go. >> reporter: ready to go means something quite different to juan mesa, however. back on the flip side of the foreclosure story, the down side of mark joseph's job. >>...
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. >> on a flight from boston yesterday at 3:00 and got here at 5:00 p.m. and have been here since trying to get to pittsburgh. right over there behind the christmas tree. >> we called up the airline last night. everything was totally fine. we arrived this morning. the flight was canceled. a lot of people confused not knowing what's going on. >> reporter: as the day went on, runways began to reopen and flight schedules slowly began returning to normal. >> brown: the blizzard also left shopping malls snow bound with merchants scrambling to recoup a critical weekend of lost business. airline passengers in the u.s. will not have to sit on the tarmac for more than three hours. the transportation department ordered today that passengers be allowed to deplane if a delay lasts that long. otherwise, airlines could risk fines of $27,000 per passenger. transportation officials say an average of 1500 flights a year are delayed more than three hours. thousands of rail travelers in britain, france and belgium were stranded for a third day after snow halted high-speed ra
. >> on a flight from boston yesterday at 3:00 and got here at 5:00 p.m. and have been here since trying to get to pittsburgh. right over there behind the christmas tree. >> we called up the airline last night. everything was totally fine. we arrived this morning. the flight was canceled. a lot of people confused not knowing what's going on. >> reporter: as the day went on, runways began to reopen and flight schedules slowly began returning to normal. >> brown: the...
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to see how romney's fighting for ohio, i need to go 700 miles east to campaign headquarters in boston. zach move at is romney's digital director. >> essentially the obama has had that significant head start. how do you deal with that challenge? >> we don't judge ourselves based upon the obama campaign because if we did we would judge against a man who has run unopposed for the last year. if we only rely on the actual television we'll lose this election. >> sreenivasan: the survey found roughly third of the electorate is more difficult to reach by traditional campaign methods. they're the people who spend more of their lives online. he calls these voters off the grid. >> this large off the grid population, who are they? >> we define them by the term of people who don't watch live television anymore. other than sports they choose to live their lives on demand. they primarily watch d.v.r., netflix, they're choosing when they consume their content. that's the big difference. it's an astronomical amount of people who do not see a tv spot. one in three voters. >> sreenivasan: that works out
to see how romney's fighting for ohio, i need to go 700 miles east to campaign headquarters in boston. zach move at is romney's digital director. >> essentially the obama has had that significant head start. how do you deal with that challenge? >> we don't judge ourselves based upon the obama campaign because if we did we would judge against a man who has run unopposed for the last year. if we only rely on the actual television we'll lose this election. >> sreenivasan: the...
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for one perspective on that, we are joined by michael kranish, of "the boston globe," co-author of the book "the real romney." so michael, who is the real romney? and what is it really, my question is, what is it about his character or his temperament that enabled him to come back from defeat four years ago and prevail this year? >> it's interesting, he had said he never imagined running for president, but many his friends will tell you that he's imagined it since his father failed in his bid to be the republican nominee back in 1968. so it's something he surely thought about for many, many, many years and when he ran the last time around it was not a successful campaign for many reasons, tried to court the social conservatives, evangelicals. this time around he tried to pitch a very simple message that he's mr. fix it. and that worked this time around. >> warner: in terms of his personality and his character, first of all, is he as competitive as he looks? >> well, he >> well, he ;mx 6cj& he favored aborings rights. but he ran for governor in massachusetts in 2002 he called himself a
for one perspective on that, we are joined by michael kranish, of "the boston globe," co-author of the book "the real romney." so michael, who is the real romney? and what is it really, my question is, what is it about his character or his temperament that enabled him to come back from defeat four years ago and prevail this year? >> it's interesting, he had said he never imagined running for president, but many his friends will tell you that he's imagined it since his...
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speaking at a conference in boston this morning, ben bernanke cited concerns the economy isn't improving fast enough. >> with growth in private final demand having so far proved relatively modest, overall economic growth has been proceeding at a pace that is less vigorous than we would like. given the committee's objectives, there would appear, all else being equal, to be a case for further action. >> brown: chairman bernanke suggested the fed could expand its purchases of government debt in order to lower long-term interest rates, a tool known as quantitative easing. but he admitted the policy comes with some risks and uncertainies. >> we have much less experience in judging the economic effects of this policy instrument. >> brown: another concern cited by bernanke was inflation, but not the familiar problem. indeed, the labor department today announced the consumer price index had risen just .1% in september, and overall, only 1.1% in the past year. this morning, chairman bernanke said that is too low. >> in effect, inflation is running at rates that are too low, relative to the level
speaking at a conference in boston this morning, ben bernanke cited concerns the economy isn't improving fast enough. >> with growth in private final demand having so far proved relatively modest, overall economic growth has been proceeding at a pace that is less vigorous than we would like. given the committee's objectives, there would appear, all else being equal, to be a case for further action. >> brown: chairman bernanke suggested the fed could expand its purchases of...
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one month later in november 1863, a host of tig any taries from boston, philadelphia, and washington including president lincoln himself journeyed to gettysburg to dedicate the new soldiers' national cemetery there. lincoln's brief but soaring remarks, like the new burial ground itself, with its rows of identical graves radiating symmetrically and democratically around the cemetery's central focus marked a seismic shift in governmental attitude and policy towards the dead. one that said that the dead were no longer simply the responsibility of their famili families, that they and their loss and their meaning belonged to the nation. >> the gettysburg address is a statement about finding the redemption in the dead. but we need to that in that cemetery that day, half those coffins weren't even buried yet. graves were still open. this was a place of death, mass death. where lincoln tried to craft this statement of so, what does it mean? it is a kind of statement that if this war has purpose, if all these dead have died for something meaningful, then it means we are going to redefine this
one month later in november 1863, a host of tig any taries from boston, philadelphia, and washington including president lincoln himself journeyed to gettysburg to dedicate the new soldiers' national cemetery there. lincoln's brief but soaring remarks, like the new burial ground itself, with its rows of identical graves radiating symmetrically and democratically around the cemetery's central focus marked a seismic shift in governmental attitude and policy towards the dead. one that said that...
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he teaches at boston university. his latest book is "washington rules: america's path to permanent war." welcome to you all. rajiv, let me begin with you. you've been there on the ground. you were in marja. the picture you painted it appeared as if it's not going to plan. what did you find? >> well, marja is turning out to be a tough slog for the u.s. marine and afghan security forces that are there. i was with the marines back in february when they swooped in to this part of helmand province. you know, after a few weeks on the ground, the initial reports were that things were going pretty well. even potentially seeing catastrophic success there. what appears to have been the case is that taliban were simply laying in wait trying to look for the soft underbelly of the coalition forces and now have begun to reassert themselves both by directly attacking marine forces but also by waging a pretty effective campaign of intimidation. that has dissuaded many locals from stepping up to work with the afghan government, to a
he teaches at boston university. his latest book is "washington rules: america's path to permanent war." welcome to you all. rajiv, let me begin with you. you've been there on the ground. you were in marja. the picture you painted it appeared as if it's not going to plan. what did you find? >> well, marja is turning out to be a tough slog for the u.s. marine and afghan security forces that are there. i was with the marines back in february when they swooped in to this part of...
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four cities-- chicago, minneapolis, washington and boston-- posted the largest increases in the latest case- shiller home-price index. but prices in detroit, cleveland, las vegas, and phoenix were selling at the same levels as january of 2000, more than ten years ago. what's more, the survey of 20 cities found overall home prices have actually fallen over the last 12 months. and home sales for this year are on pace to be the worst in 14 years. things could get worse yet, once banks pick up the pace on millions of foreclosures, as expected. they've been delayed by a government investigation into mortgage lending practices. >> attorney generals, prosecute the criminals! >> brown: amid anger over the banks' handling of foreclosures, 36 state attorneys general and the obama administration have been trying to negotiate a settlement with the five largest mortgage servicers. it could include a lump sum settlement of more than $20 billion that states could then use to modify mortgages. meanwhile, the futures of mortgage giants fannie mae and freddie mac are still to be determined, with a new p
four cities-- chicago, minneapolis, washington and boston-- posted the largest increases in the latest case- shiller home-price index. but prices in detroit, cleveland, las vegas, and phoenix were selling at the same levels as january of 2000, more than ten years ago. what's more, the survey of 20 cities found overall home prices have actually fallen over the last 12 months. and home sales for this year are on pace to be the worst in 14 years. things could get worse yet, once banks pick up the...
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plus on art beat, jeff talks to the director of the museum of fine arts in boston about their new american art wing. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. jeff? >> brown: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at supreme court arguments on an arizona law that punishes employers for knowingly hiring illegal workers. i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> where does it go? every penny and more went into making energy for the world. >> the economy is tough right now everywhere. >> we pumped $21 million into local economies into small businesses, communities, equipment, materials. >> that money can make a huge difference to a lot of people. >> opportunity can start anywhere and go everywhere. to help revitalize a neighborhood in massachusetts, restore an historic landmark in harlem, fund a local business in chicago, expand great energy initiatives in seattle. because when you're giving, lending, and investi
plus on art beat, jeff talks to the director of the museum of fine arts in boston about their new american art wing. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. jeff? >> brown: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at supreme court arguments on an arizona law that punishes employers for knowingly hiring illegal workers. i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night....
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thanks. >> woodruff: for the view from the romney campaign we go to margaret warner in boston. margaret, hello. what are they saying, the obama folks? >> warner: judy, the romney folks have been, i would say, nervous, anxious and expectant all at once all day. not unlike the mood that ray has picked up with the obama campaign. but just five minutes ago i talked to one of the sort of not totally inner circle but quite inner circle who said, you know, all election day information is b.s. and something in a year in which there was so much early voting. he said with that said it's really trending our way. he believes, and they believe, that the turnout was up in their strong counties and that not as high as expected in the democratic counties and that the electorate will turn out to be the kind of electorate that they think they need to win. >> woodruff: presumably they're not more nervous than i am. i just called them the wrong campaign. i said obama and i meant romney. margaret, what about the trip that governor romney made today? he went to pittsburgh. he stopped ohio and clevel
thanks. >> woodruff: for the view from the romney campaign we go to margaret warner in boston. margaret, hello. what are they saying, the obama folks? >> warner: judy, the romney folks have been, i would say, nervous, anxious and expectant all at once all day. not unlike the mood that ray has picked up with the obama campaign. but just five minutes ago i talked to one of the sort of not totally inner circle but quite inner circle who said, you know, all election day information is...
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an intimate setting with wonderful acoustics on the famous wooden stage of boston, taping a show for the pbs music program's 35th anniversary year, the longest running music series in american television history. >> when it started out, it was essentially a home grown austin and texas music show. >> brown: terry lacona has been at the helm for all but the first two years. >> at the time the austin music scene was taking root. willie nelson had moved back to texas from nashville. clubs were just popping up like mushrooms. and a scene was developing. some called it progressive country as a counterpoint to nashville. nobody had any illusions about the show lasting more than a couple of seasons and then it would be a fun ride while it did. ♪. >> brown: willie nelson, the local hero, was the star of the first show and helped define the program. but lacona realized that a.c.l., as they call it here, had to diversify to build an audience. over the years the show has featured a wide array of talent. >> the primary criteria that i apply is originality. i look for an artist or a band or a si
an intimate setting with wonderful acoustics on the famous wooden stage of boston, taping a show for the pbs music program's 35th anniversary year, the longest running music series in american television history. >> when it started out, it was essentially a home grown austin and texas music show. >> brown: terry lacona has been at the helm for all but the first two years. >> at the time the austin music scene was taking root. willie nelson had moved back to texas from...
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he played 13 seasons with the boston red sox and won two world series with the new york yankees. now, clemens is now fighting to stay out of jail. the counts face possible sentences up to 30 years. more now on the trial and the clemens story, from david epstein who's covering it for "sports illustrated." well, there were six counts in all, david. what does the government say roger clemens did? >> well, the counts are obstruction of congress, perjury and making false statements but they all amount, basically, to him not telling the truth before congress in a hearing that was televised national by but also... actually, there are 15 false statements he's alleged to have made and the majority of those are actually in the depositions he gave to committee members in congress before that hearing that was televised. >> suarez: so it's not anything about whether he used drugs. >> we've seen some of his former teammates and other players who have admitted they used drugs. have kind of moved on from it. so this is completely about false statements before congress. >> suarez: well we saw rog
he played 13 seasons with the boston red sox and won two world series with the new york yankees. now, clemens is now fighting to stay out of jail. the counts face possible sentences up to 30 years. more now on the trial and the clemens story, from david epstein who's covering it for "sports illustrated." well, there were six counts in all, david. what does the government say roger clemens did? >> well, the counts are obstruction of congress, perjury and making false statements...
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beth healy is with the "boston globe." and dan primack is a senior editor at "fortune" magazine. welcome to you both. dan primak, first of all, for those of us who don't work in the financial services industry, what does bain do? >> bain for the most part, they have a lot of different businesses, but their primary business is private equity. which basically means you buy a company, you try to improve it and then you try to sell it later at a higher price either another private equity firm, another corporation or, in some cases, take it public. that's the gist of the business. they have investors who give them the money to do it, then they take a cut of the profits if there are some. the. >> woodruff: and beth healy, what's the role of borrowing in all this? we know a lot of this has to do with so-called leveraged buyouts. so what's the role of debt in all this? >> that's right. so when the company buys... when companies like bain buy a firm they also borrow a lot of money from the bank. in fact, they borrow much more than they typically put down. you might put down $10 million an
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and in boston, former u.s. diplomat nicholas burns, now with the kennedy school of government at harvard university. welcome to you both. let me just ask you to start broadly speaking. what do we take away from last night's debate in terms of how well these two candidates understand american foreign policy and would be a good steward of it? let me start with you. nick burns. >> well, judy, this may sound startling to say in our present red-blue divided partisan environment but i think we have two impressive people running for president. they're both knowledgeable. they're both very smart about the issues. both of them have been successful in nearly everything they've tried in their professional lives. president obama was clearly the more knowledgeable and nuanced and even some's ticketed in the way he describedded the challenges to us on the foreign policy and national security landscape. i thought that governor romney had a very strong moment in the debate, a very good moment when he tied together our domestic
and in boston, former u.s. diplomat nicholas burns, now with the kennedy school of government at harvard university. welcome to you both. let me just ask you to start broadly speaking. what do we take away from last night's debate in terms of how well these two candidates understand american foreign policy and would be a good steward of it? let me start with you. nick burns. >> well, judy, this may sound startling to say in our present red-blue divided partisan environment but i think we...
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the recipient, dallas wiens of texas, appeared alongside his doctors in boston, where he had the ground-breaking operation. he had suffered near-fatal burns on a construction site. the accident left the 26-year- old wiens permanently blind. the credit card processor global payments worked today to reassure card holders, after a major security breach last week. the atlanta-based firm said the problem is "absolutely contained," but the investigation continues. initially, it appeared hackers stole credit card numbers for one and a half million visa and mastercard users across north america. today global payments said the number affected may be smaller. martha johnson has resigned after accounts of lavish spending. the "washington post" reported today on a training conference that ran up costs of $835,000. the expenses included $3200 for a mind reader and $75,000 on a training exercise to build a bicycle. the g.s.a.oversee supplies, office space and transportation for federal agencies. on wall street, stocks opened the second quarter with modest gains after a key index showed gains in manufacturing.
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. >> reporter: why are you here as opposed to boston? >> there is no richer talent pool from an engineering perspective around automotive than right here in the state of michigan. and it was a unique time because many of them were unemployed. >> reporter: moreover, the company starts workers at closer to the second tier $14 an hour than the u.a.w. wages of the past. >> wages have come down and that's what's made michigan attractive frankly, is that it's not $30 an hour plus full benefits and pension for life. >> reporter: john thomas runs a firm that retrofits vehicles to run electric. >> we're in auburn hills, michigan. we leased a 200,000 square foot assembly facility near the chrysler tech center and the palace. >> reporter: and what's the advantage of being here? >> all of the resources for automotives are absolutely here. >> reporter: so then, last question for the skeptic: are electric vehicles going to save general motors and save detroit? >> no, is the short answer. the projections are, at their most optimistic, it's something li
. >> reporter: why are you here as opposed to boston? >> there is no richer talent pool from an engineering perspective around automotive than right here in the state of michigan. and it was a unique time because many of them were unemployed. >> reporter: moreover, the company starts workers at closer to the second tier $14 an hour than the u.a.w. wages of the past. >> wages have come down and that's what's made michigan attractive frankly, is that it's not $30 an hour...
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a three-judge panel in boston found the 1996 law unconstitutionally bars same-sex couples from federal benefits granted to heterosexuals. the court did not address the law's definition of marriage, as restricted to one man and woman. the case is almost certainly bound for the u.s. supreme court. republicans in the u.s. house fell short today on a bill that would ban abortions based on gender. the bill carried prison terms of up to five years for doctors. supporters said some immigrant groups have brought to this country a tradition of targeting female fetuses for abortion. opponents argued the government should not intrude into such private matters. there were new warnings today about europe's currency system, as continuing debt troubles roiled nation after nation. the rising concerns also rippled across the atlantic. ( explosion ) from the violence-filled streets of madrid to the poster-riddled streets of dublin, evidence of europe's economic distress was in plain sight. the urgency was underlined by president obama in a video conference late wednesday with european leaders. spokesman
a three-judge panel in boston found the 1996 law unconstitutionally bars same-sex couples from federal benefits granted to heterosexuals. the court did not address the law's definition of marriage, as restricted to one man and woman. the case is almost certainly bound for the u.s. supreme court. republicans in the u.s. house fell short today on a bill that would ban abortions based on gender. the bill carried prison terms of up to five years for doctors. supporters said some immigrant groups...
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now we're going to go to boston where margaret warner is outside romney headquarters in boston. margaret. >> warner: hi. it's cold here. >> ifill: it's cold here. so far, we've made several calls, all of them in state so far that were not the contested state. but is it boosting people at all? do they feel like this is going as well as they had hoped or are they a little bit nervous about what to expect later? >> warner: well, as i mentioned earlier gwen, they have been nervous all day, even though they-- by the end of the day, they were thinking their own turnout was great. here's what i'm being told. as i mentioned earlier, they had hoped that virginia would be pretty clearly a romney win pretty early on. that-- it's not yet. that said, it's only one hour since the polls closed. and they know that the networks are being very careful, and the associated press, to call any state. so they're not yet disheartened by that. but this is a very big-- this hour now is very big to them. new hampshire was key. they had high hopes of getting those four electoral vote, that there had been a
now we're going to go to boston where margaret warner is outside romney headquarters in boston. margaret. >> warner: hi. it's cold here. >> ifill: it's cold here. so far, we've made several calls, all of them in state so far that were not the contested state. but is it boosting people at all? do they feel like this is going as well as they had hoped or are they a little bit nervous about what to expect later? >> warner: well, as i mentioned earlier gwen, they have been nervous...